Forum Archive

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Oct 29, 2015 - 11:27
shaun-h
Hi All, I thought I would share something that I have been working on and off for a week or so now, it is a sqlite3 browser. I have been tr...
Oct 29, 2015 - 05:04
mhps
[official mhps website](https://sites.google.com/a/mydusd.org/mhps/) offical code will be posted here once ready.
Oct 29, 2015 - 02:23
Webmaster4o
Is it possible, maybe using `objc_util`, to get what the camera sees as a PIL image without displaying the dialog? I want to have an AR-type...
Oct 28, 2015 - 14:31
ccc
I create a utility to [dump the table layout information](https://github.com/cclauss/Ten-lines-or-less/blob/master/sqlite_table_layout.py) f...
Oct 27, 2015 - 21:33
Nanao
Hello. If put a new line in the long text written in multi-byte, it's very hard to see. Image: http://cl.ly/de8F Preference: Line Spacing:...
Oct 26, 2015 - 15:08
Webmaster4o
Would it be possible to write a script compatible with both 1.5 and 1.6 that syncs files across multiple devices through GitHub? I could ha...
Oct 26, 2015 - 01:42
macmanuk138
I'm wondering if there is a way of automatically adding an @na tag to the first project task underneath the project title? I assume some Py...
Oct 25, 2015 - 17:00
mmontague
Hello, Is it possible to save a multi-frame GIF to the clipboard or to photos? I am opening the GIF file in pythonista with ``` im = I...
Oct 25, 2015 - 13:24
Beginner101
Me again .... just got another idea :) after I got so much help to solve my other mental problem with adding something to a taskpaper docum...
Oct 24, 2015 - 22:00
Beginner101
Hi community. Need to pick your brains again. Trying to make a workflow for searching for a project name in a taskpaper document. if pr...
Oct 24, 2015 - 20:05
JonB
Has anyone gotten svg images to work in either ui.Image or as PIL images? I am doing a major rework of [gitview](https://github.com/jsbain/...
Oct 24, 2015 - 14:53
blmacbeth
I know Pythonista already has this with the `console` module, but I think it is a decent look at how to work with other UIViewControllers. T...
Oct 24, 2015 - 10:18
beer2011
Hello, all. In the XCODE's project , compile-time errors occurs . 'PythonistaProjectTemplate.zip' -- 'Pythonista 1.5 – What's New (and Wha...
Oct 24, 2015 - 02:16
MDB
Hoping someone has a suggestion. I am writing a document which contains instances of a word ending with a superscript character. Looks like ...
Oct 23, 2015 - 15:41
scj643
Are testers for the beta version still being accepted I would like to try a lot of the new libraries.
Oct 22, 2015 - 00:32
blmacbeth
Here is a work-in-progress of a UITabBar. It sometimes crashes… ```Python # coding: utf-8 from objc_util import * import ctypes import weak...
Oct 19, 2015 - 04:25
cook
I've been doing some brainstorming on something... *(sorry this is about something in Editorial but more so about the ability of Python code...
Oct 19, 2015 - 00:26
BennyPearce14
I'm having an issue trying to install scipy on pythonista. I've used pipista to download the scipy.tar.gz file and have tried using shellist...
Oct 18, 2015 - 14:41
Phuket2
I know I have asked this before in various ways. I hope I am in a better position to understand the answers now. Also to express what I am t...
Oct 17, 2015 - 20:19
dgelessus
Normally the `PYTHONPATH` environment variable can be used to add additional directories in front of the default import path. By default it ...
Oct 17, 2015 - 18:21
Phuket2
If in the UI builder, you try to assign an image to a button or a ImageView, no images to select. However if in the editor you go to images,...
Oct 17, 2015 - 14:38
Phuket2
The forum a little slow on the weekend. So I will ask this question. Is there a speed difference when you use the Xcode Template and build y...
Oct 15, 2015 - 01:39
Webmaster4o
Dear @omz , It occurred to me recently how powerful it would be to have a module for building custom keyboards, introduced in iOS 8. I ass...
Oct 15, 2015 - 00:19
theSNEW
first day of tutorials and i'm attempting what should be an easy one. name = input("What is your name? ") print("Hello " + name + "!") on ...
Oct 14, 2015 - 15:23
tacosauce
How do I remove it when running scripts using the ui module? The grey bar with the x. It ruins my design.
Oct 13, 2015 - 19:52
shyamal
Can you have the error wrap to the next line? Thanks, Shyamal
Oct 13, 2015 - 06:24
rianmurphy
Once you've perfected Editorial as is, consider supporting two independent panes in the interface -- two views of the same file, or two diff...
Oct 13, 2015 - 04:48
userista
I am trying to use `objc_util` to use some `CommonCrypto` methods but I can't seem to figure out how to load the CommonCrypto framework. My...
Oct 13, 2015 - 02:27
twelvety
I dearly love Editorial and am using it more and more on my iPhone. When I'm done editing a file, I'd like to be able to close it, just like...
Oct 11, 2015 - 03:02
Cethric
Now that iOS 8 and 9 support the use of dynamically loaded frameworks (not just the ones made by apple) would it be possible to load a custo...
Oct 10, 2015 - 17:23
Kipekeedev
I'm having a problem concatenating a string to a variable to create a method in my app. It goes something like this: ``` # coding: utf-8 i...
Oct 10, 2015 - 00:20
Cethric
@omz I was trying to implement a block function for ```GLKTextureLoader.textureWithContentsOfFile_options_queue_completionHandler_``` howeve...
Oct 09, 2015 - 10:29
Phuket2
@omz, just an idea. If you are trying to nail down certain parts of the beta, modules etc. you could list a few modules at a time that you w...
Oct 08, 2015 - 09:06
Cethric
I have been trying to impliment the majority of the GLKit library into my OpenGLES bindings however when I try to set the position variable ...
Oct 07, 2015 - 19:22
Phuket2
I have just been playing around with Pythons help function. While obvious for many, not all of us. I made a stupid example below just to giv...
Oct 07, 2015 - 04:59
Kipekeedev
Hello. I want to work on something different but I don't know if pythonista supports it so please help. Here it is. I want to create a progr...
Oct 07, 2015 - 03:21
Webmaster4o
Can anyone reproduce this behavior? I'm getting crashes on both 1.5 and 1.6 templates.
Oct 06, 2015 - 20:34
mikael
When running a script with a UI, there is no button to end editing/dismiss the keyboard. This applies at least to iOS 9 running on iPhone ...
Oct 06, 2015 - 20:25
Webmaster4o
If I edit preview themes, I can see the Unstyled and the Example theme, but not the Default theme. If I want it to look like the Default the...
Oct 06, 2015 - 17:41
Phuket2
@omz, if you create a file using your file browser and select create a file with a text extention, you end up with a .py file with code copi...
Oct 05, 2015 - 12:43
curious
Hello, I want to create something like a timer with the UI. For testing there should be a button which triggers a label to display a count...
Oct 04, 2015 - 00:16
Pythonistapro777
Later on in the school year, we will be uploading python games/apps that we make using Django. I'm just creating this post to know whether o...
Oct 03, 2015 - 14:03
Webmaster4o
I really just want OpenCV and Scipy. Scipy support makes sense and doesn't seem like it would be much harder to incorporate than numpy wa...
Oct 03, 2015 - 10:45
Phuket2
Just wanted to say I am still here and reading the forum, will also help if I can, although recent topics out of my league. Just been trying...
Oct 02, 2015 - 11:06
MartinPacker
Not off-topic, I think. This blog post of mine uses some Pythonista code. Might spark some thoughts and discussion here. For one, how to ...
Oct 01, 2015 - 01:25
Webmaster4o
After I dismiss a ui.View with the two-finger swipe gesture, my keyboard looks like this: ![](http://i.imgur.com/5i49BOr.jpg) Also, the find...
Sep 30, 2015 - 02:46
Cethric
With the following call ``` PhysicsCamera(euclid.Vector3(-10, 10, -10), yaw=30, pitch=-30) ``` I am recieving a ```TypeError: unbound method...
Sep 29, 2015 - 23:02
Kipekeedev
Hello again. I recently received some great help on how to a group of url images to a view. It works perfectly. Here's the code ``` import...
Sep 28, 2015 - 02:17
trevormeier
I'd love to have an option to show the first few lines of text along with the document name in the list view, like the search function curre...
Sep 27, 2015 - 13:55
Pythonistapro777
I'm pretty much finished with the basic agar.io, but there is a slight problem. When the bot/player eats a cell I added an append for a new ...